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  • Two Ladin men share the news over a cup of morning coffee in a restaurant in the village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • Two Ladin women dress in traditional clothing that is often worn on Sundays and for ceremonial occasions linked to the ancient customs. Ladins in the small village in the Dolomites divided from other ethnic relatives to the far reaches of the mountains further away from German influences. The people living here speak Italian and German, but Ladin in their first language.
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  • A Ladin farmer drives a horse-drawn sled on steep hills with small patches of melting snow outside the Dolomites. The community of LaVal remains isolated by geography and the people retained their own ethnic language although they also speak German and Italian.
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  • Girlfriends cuddle puppies that bring them joy in a family's barn in the Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • A Ladin family travels to church in LaVal on a horse-drawn sled. The brothers and sister keep to old traditions that include an ethnic language only spoken in the isolated village in the Dolomites. The Church of Santa Barbara is a 15th century Gothic building.
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  • A religious Ladin man reads a newspaper while watching a Catholic funeral on television in the kitchen of his farm house in the Dolomites. The community is close-knit and have a language unique to their region in LaVal in the Italian Alps.
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  • A Ladin man collects a pail of water from a cattle trough and traverses carefully across a sheet of ice. Life is hard in rural, isolated villages like LaVal in the Italian Alps.
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  • A Ladin funeral procession seen trough a lace curtained window in a small village of LaVal in the Alps where the people are isolated and speak German and Italian but also Ladin, their own ethnic language.
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  • Wearing a black hat, a sister waits while her brother unhooks a horse from a sled. Some Ladinos choose a simple life in LaVal the Dolomites, a village so isolated that the people there have their own language. In small villages, population continues to drop and older people go unmarried.
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  • A farm woman takes a break from baking biscuits and taps on a window to get the attention of her nephew. Ladin village of LaVal is small and the people speak their own ethnic language in this isolated region of the Dolomites. They also speak German and Italian.
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  • A farm family heads home after working in the fields in LaVal under the vista of the Dolomites.  The mountain cliffs are so steep that no glaciers formed on them. The Alps thrust up when tectonic plates collided between Africa and Eurasia.  The Ladin people living in the mountain region have a close bond with nature and the outdoors.
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  • Mother teaches her daughter to cook traditional foods in their family's restaurant in the small Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites.
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  • Two nephews watch their uncle milk a cow in the pasture on the farm in a rural area near the Dolomites. The isolated mountain community LaVal has roots in agriculture speak their own ethnic Ladin language.
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  • A farmer carries milk cans into the barn twice a day to milk his cows in a Ladin village of LaVal in the Dolomites. Small dairy farms support local economy in mountain regions of northern Italy.
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  • A woman arrives to work via horse and sled.
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  • A farming family travels by horse and sled.
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  • A village farm woman takes a break from raking hay with her nephew on the family farm in the community of ethnic Ladin culture that so isolated, the mountain people speak Italian and German but have retained their own language. Generations remain in LaVal, choosing a simple life for its richness and connection to the land.
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